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Clearing with a Lumber Mill

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Date

1847 (?)

Artist

John Middleton (1827-1856)

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/671455

Description

Middleton belonged to the Norwich School, a loose association of artists with a regional identity led at the outset by John Crome (1768–1821) and John Sell Cotman (1782–1842). A member of the next generation, Middleton painted fine, expressive watercolors before succumbing to consumption at age of twenty-nine. The loose brushwork of "Clearing with a Lumber Mill" is charactertistic of the artist's early work, and the subject suggests a date of 1847. In that year Middleton stayed in London to exhibit at the Royal Academy and British Institution for the first time, then toured Kent with Henry Bright (1810-1873), his teacher and a fellow Norwich artist. At this time he made dated drawings of a lumber yard similar to this one near Tunbridge Wells. Medium: watercolor over graphite.

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CC0 1.0

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Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

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Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England

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